Lee College - Vindauga Yearbook (Cleveland, TN)

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A Man For Our Time What does it take to be a college president? Dr. Charles W. Conn likes to quote one of his favorite books, Presiden- tial Passages: Be flexible, tough skinned, have good control of your ego and real- ize that you will never make a right decision in the eyes of at least part of your public and employees. The job of the president requires him to mediate everything — from meeting with the Board of Directors to settling student squab- bles, teaching classes and teachers, meet- ing with VIP ' s (either Very Important People or Very Interested Parents), conducting massive fund raising cam- paigns and then figuring out who needs the money the most. And Charles W. Conn has been doing all that and more for over ten years during a time when most college presidents are falling by the wayside (average term — four years). The reason for his success? A philos- ophy which puts his job in proper per- spective. Dr. Conn says, Kids are what the college is all about — Lee College exists to teach students, not to provide jobs, a point dramatically driven home by some tough decisions this year. But it remains a concept of paramount impor- tance to Dr. Conn. I have a standing I have a standing policy here that if three people arrive at the same time — a businessman, a teacher, and a student — show that student in. policy here that if three people arrive at the same time — a businessman, a teach- er, and a student — show that student in. Lee College ' s commitment is to its students — providing them with the best education available anywhere, balancing knowledge with a good Christian envi- ronment, developing a sense of skill and worth in each student, molding in each an awareness of responsibility, and pro- viding them with the tools necessary to be Christian servants and leaders in this needy world. But students are not perfect. If they were, why would they need an educa- tion? Some students, Dr. Conn admits, arrive with the feeling that we are one big happy youth camp. A lot of them experience culture shock when they find out they ' ve got to do term papers and take exams like students do at any other academic institution of high de- mands. In a time when a college education doesn ' t seem so necessary as it once was, with plumbers and mechanics outearning Ph.D. ' s, some people have questioned I ' m always on the kids ' side. 12 PRESIDENT CONN